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Salt Minion

This is not the latest version of Salt Minion available.

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2017.7.4 | Updated: 26 Feb 2018

Downloads:

590,201

Downloads of v 2017.7.4:

713

Software Author(s):

  • SaltStack

Salt Minion 2017.7.4

This is not the latest version of Salt Minion available.

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This package was submitted (and approved) prior to automated virus scanning integration into the package moderation processs.

We recommend clicking the "Details" link to make your own decision on installing this package.

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Deployment Method: Individual Install, Upgrade, & Uninstall

To install Salt Minion, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To upgrade Salt Minion, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

To uninstall Salt Minion, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:

>

Deployment Method:

NOTE

This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.

1. Enter Your Internal Repository Url

(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/)


2. Setup Your Environment

1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment

Please see the organizational deployment guide

2. Get the package into your environment

  • Open Source or Commercial:
    • Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2/. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
    • You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download

3. Copy Your Script

choco upgrade saltminion -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" --version="'2017.7.4'" [other options]

See options you can pass to upgrade.

See best practices for scripting.

Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.

If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:


choco upgrade saltminion -y --source="'INTERNAL REPO URL'" --version="'2017.7.4'" 
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE

Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
  Exit 0
}

Exit $exitCode

- name: Install saltminion
  win_chocolatey:
    name: saltminion
    version: '2017.7.4'
    source: INTERNAL REPO URL
    state: present

See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.


chocolatey_package 'saltminion' do
  action    :install
  source   'INTERNAL REPO URL'
  version  '2017.7.4'
end

See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.


cChocoPackageInstaller saltminion
{
    Name     = "saltminion"
    Version  = "2017.7.4"
    Source   = "INTERNAL REPO URL"
}

Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.


package { 'saltminion':
  ensure   => '2017.7.4',
  provider => 'chocolatey',
  source   => 'INTERNAL REPO URL',
}

Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.


4. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation

See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.

Package Approved

This package was approved as a trusted package on 26 Feb 2018.

Description

This package installs a salt minion on your system as a windows service. The Salt minion receives commands from the central Salt master and replies with the results of said commands. It can also be used in standalone mode to apply states to a machine without a master by using C:\salt\salt-call.bat --local state.sls [yoursls] or similar commands with --local.
Note that this package supports two arguments: /master=yoursaltmaster and /minion=yourminionname (note the installer itself uses /minion-name, but parsing dictionary keys with the - is painful).
These arguments can be passed to the package via the --params '/master=yoursaltmaster'. The custom salt master is recommended in most environments, the minion name is optional will default to the hostname if not supplied.


tools\chocolateyBeforeModify.ps1
# Need to keep a copy of the C:\salt\conf\minion and minion.d files in case the user is upgrading and wants to persist their existing settings.
$chocoBackup =  '$env:ProgramData\chocolatey\lib-bkp\saltconfig'
$saltConfig = 'C:\salt\conf\'
# Items to keep around, 'pki' is "identity", 'minion[_id]' is settings and ID, 'minion.d' is additional settings
#if (Test-Path $saltConfig ) { copy-item $saltConfig $chocoBackup -recurse }
# In chocolateyInstall.ps1 will need to look for a previous backup and restore files either before install or after upgrade (only IF the master & minion ID match?)
# if (Test-Path $chocoBackup) { copy-item $chocoBackup $saltConfig -recurse }
# Maybe do the backup via another package that simply assumes C:\salt\conf and performs the backup? but reverse-depends don't work here
# In chocolateyUninstall.ps1 will need to remove $chocoBackup if it exists but only if doing a real uninstall and not an upgrade
tools\chocolateyInstall.ps1
$packageName = 'saltminion'

# Update these URLs and checksums when deploying a new version
$url = 'https://repo.saltstack.com/windows/Salt-Minion-2017.7.4-Py2-x86-Setup.exe'
$checksum = 'F747DEA071A89B83E89E0761F0367A6F'
$url64 = 'https://repo.saltstack.com/windows/Salt-Minion-2017.7.4-Py2-AMD64-Setup.exe'
$checksum64 = 'BD31CBE7BE3766820DBB645E2555DB19'

# Get arguments to download the file from the URLs and checksums above
$packageArgs = @{
  packageName   = $packageName
  fileType      = 'exe'
  url           = $url
  url64bit      = $url64
  silentArgs    = "/S"
  softwareName  = 'Salt*'
  checksum      = $checksum
  checksumType  = 'md5'
  checksum64    = $checksum64
  checksumType64= 'md5'
}

$arguments = @{};
# /master=myMaster /minion=myMinion
$packageParameters = $env:chocolateyPackageParameters;
$packageParameters
# Default the values
$saltMaster = ''
$minionName = ''

# Now parse the packageParameters using good old regular expression
if ($packageParameters) {
    $match_pattern = "\/(?<option>([a-zA-Z]+))=(?<value>([`"'])?([a-zA-Z0-9- _\\:\.]+)([`"'])?)|\/(?<option>([a-zA-Z]+))"
    #"
    $option_name = 'option'
    $value_name = 'value'

    if ($packageParameters -match $match_pattern ){
        $results = $packageParameters | Select-String $match_pattern -AllMatches
        $results.matches | % {
          $arguments.Add(
              $_.Groups[$option_name].Value.Trim(),
              $_.Groups[$value_name].Value.Trim())
      }
    }
    else
    {
      throw "Package Parameters were found but were invalid (REGEX Failure)"
    }

    if ($arguments.ContainsKey("master")) {
        Write-Host "You specified a custom master address"
        $saltMaster = $arguments['master']
        $packageArgs['silentArgs'] += " /master=$saltMaster"
    }

    if ($arguments.ContainsKey("minion")) {
        Write-Host "You specified a custom minion ID"
        $minionName = $arguments['minion']
        $packageArgs['silentArgs'] += " /minion-name=$minionName"
    }
} else {
    Write-Debug "No Package Parameters Passed in, using defaults of /master=salt and /minion=$env:COMPUTERNAME"
}
install-ChocolateyPackage @packageArgs

tools\chocolateyUninstall.ps1
# By default, salt installs in c:\salt This package will attempt to call the uninstall executable from there. 
C:\salt\uninst.exe /S

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Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.

Add to Builder Version Downloads Last Updated Status
Salt Minion (Install) 3006.7.0 1981 Wednesday, February 21, 2024 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3006.6.0 1050 Friday, February 16, 2024 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3006.5.0 3507 Wednesday, December 13, 2023 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3005.4.0 402 Tuesday, December 12, 2023 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3005.1.1 130490 Thursday, November 17, 2022 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3005.1.0 4046 Monday, October 3, 2022 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3004.2.1 8613 Tuesday, June 21, 2022 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3004.1.1 4581 Monday, March 28, 2022 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3004.0.3 1581 Wednesday, January 19, 2022 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3004.0.1 1139 Sunday, December 5, 2021 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3004.0.0 2719 Monday, October 18, 2021 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3003.5.1 56 Tuesday, June 21, 2022 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3003.4.1 2063 Wednesday, April 27, 2022 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3003.3.0 3582 Thursday, September 9, 2021 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3003.1.2 1528 Saturday, July 24, 2021 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3003.1.1 1180 Wednesday, June 30, 2021 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3003.1.0 1661 Friday, June 25, 2021 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3003.0.0 2659 Monday, April 5, 2021 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3002.9.1 96 Tuesday, June 21, 2022 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3002.8.1 58 Wednesday, April 27, 2022 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3002.5.0 1231 Monday, March 1, 2021 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3002.2.0 8831 Wednesday, November 18, 2020 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3002.1.0 1104 Wednesday, November 4, 2020 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3002.0.0 1669 Thursday, October 22, 2020 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3001.0.0 3192 Wednesday, June 24, 2020 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3000.3.0 330628 Thursday, May 14, 2020 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3000.2.0 3332 Thursday, April 30, 2020 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 3000.1.0 474 Tuesday, April 28, 2020 Approved
Salt Minion 3000.0.0.1 843 Tuesday, March 24, 2020 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 2019.2.5 1058 Thursday, May 14, 2020 Approved
Salt Minion (Install) 2019.2.4 789 Thursday, April 30, 2020 Approved
Salt Minion 2019.2.2 3303 Sunday, October 27, 2019 Approved
Salt Minion 2019.2.1 1312 Monday, September 30, 2019 Approved
Salt Minion 2019.2.0 7752 Tuesday, February 26, 2019 Approved
Salt Minion 2018.3.4 1526 Tuesday, February 26, 2019 Approved
Salt Minion 2018.3.3.3 1454 Thursday, January 17, 2019 Approved
Salt Minion 2018.3.3.2 451 Wednesday, January 16, 2019 Approved
Salt Minion 2018.3.3.1 2359 Monday, November 12, 2018 Approved
Salt Minion 2018.3.3 2503 Wednesday, October 24, 2018 Approved
Salt Minion 2018.3.2 8282 Wednesday, June 27, 2018 Approved
Salt Minion 2018.3.1 749 Wednesday, June 13, 2018 Approved
Salt Minion 2018.3.0.1 1394 Monday, May 21, 2018 Approved
Salt Minion 2018.3.0 3146 Tuesday, April 3, 2018 Approved
Salt Minion 2017.7.8.1 339 Thursday, December 20, 2018 Approved
Salt Minion 2017.7.8 268 Wednesday, October 24, 2018 Approved
Salt Minion 2017.7.7 301 Friday, September 7, 2018 Approved
Salt Minion 2017.7.5 4097 Tuesday, April 3, 2018 Approved
Salt Minion 2017.7.4.1 1756 Monday, March 12, 2018 Approved
Salt Minion 2017.7.4 713 Monday, February 26, 2018 Approved
Salt Minion 2017.7.3 639 Monday, February 5, 2018 Approved
Salt Minion 2017.7.2 2173 Monday, October 9, 2017 Approved
Salt Minion 2017.7.1 1101 Tuesday, August 15, 2017 Approved
Salt Minion 2017.7.0 615 Wednesday, July 26, 2017 Approved
Salt Minion 2016.11.6 3810 Wednesday, June 28, 2017 Approved
Salt Minion 2016.11.5 958 Friday, May 19, 2017 Approved
Salt Minion 2016.11.4 850 Thursday, April 27, 2017 Approved
Salt Minion 2016.11.3 789 Wednesday, March 1, 2017 Approved
Salt Minion 2016.11.2 650 Tuesday, January 31, 2017 Approved
Salt Minion 2016.11.1 383 Sunday, January 29, 2017 Approved
Salt Minion 2016.3.4 603 Wednesday, December 21, 2016 Approved
Salt Minion 2016.3.3 1469 Wednesday, August 31, 2016 Approved
Salt Minion 2016.3.2 531 Thursday, August 4, 2016 Approved
Salt Minion 2016.3.1 521 Thursday, July 28, 2016 Approved
Salt Minion 2015.8.5 1021 Monday, February 29, 2016 Approved
Salt Minion 2015.8.4 453 Monday, February 29, 2016 Approved
Salt Minion 2015.8.3 715 Saturday, December 5, 2015 Approved
Salt Minion 2015.5.8 347 Saturday, December 5, 2015 Approved
Salt Minion 2014.7.4 402 Saturday, December 5, 2015 Approved

  • Supports /master and /minion parameters
    * Updated to latest version
    * Installer waits for the service to finish registering
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